Do the hemispheres watch each other? Evidence for a between-hemispheres performance monitoring

Neuropsychology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 666-674

  Hochman, Eldad Yitzhak ^a   Eviatar, Zohar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Error processing; Hemispheric integration; Task complexity

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750970305     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.20.6.666     Document Type: Article

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